Yes, good question. This was for me to find out today. So, debug data at work … (as told, look back for what should have happened by means of backtest).
1st attached is where thee system was kicked out. You can see that at that moment it would have applied a Limit order (this would have been for Long but you can’t see that here). There is no entry because this “wanted to be” earlier. Also see the screenshot in the previous post.
2nd attached shows “reality”. Again see the screenshot in the previous post. So this is where it started. As you can see it is a Limit order again but now the one which should have entered for real. Times match exactly.
And btw, I don’t have entries with Pending Stop or such. Only Limit or Market.
The 4 points *is* the normal distance, but for SL.
Maybe I am not even sure how to look at this. See 3rd attachment.
I drew lines there, the middle one at the exit of the bar initiating the Entry. The lines under and above it, are at a distance of 4 points. It would not make sense to not being able to trade that (SL yes, that I would understand). The SL btw, in this case was at ~ 42 points. You can see that in the 4th attachment, where this would-be trade would have gone out, accidentally in a loss. IOW, a too close SL can’t have caused it either.
The 4 points go-out has happened more often to me, and this is always between 23:00 and 00:00 (Amsterdam). This is when the normal (ETH) market is closed. So I don’t know whether we must now dedicate IG bugs to that. At least I never thought about this.
Side note : excluding this hour from trading is once again not beneficial (I think I talked about this in the recent past, somewhere). Thus, systems won’t go out, but net it brings less profit. So I let this situation be against all odds.
Edit: The last attachment should have shown the time bar. But you will believe me it is the same want-to-be trade, with the blue entry arrow in the left.
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